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firewire drive for video editing
I have an external firewire drive (400) , but I’ve been using it for storage only. I have never edited straight from it. What I do is I just store my video clips there, then when I’m ready to edit I copy and paste the clips in the FW drive to the second hardrive in my system.
What I’d like to know is this: Can I edit straight from the firewire drive?
Thus eliminating the step of copying and pasting the file from the FW drive to the internal drive.
I’ve never edited straight from the FW drive, because I thought this was wrong. I thought you had to
have the video in a second (not the boot) drive that’s inside the sistem, and edit from that drive.Please advise.
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4 Replies
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What type of video are you editing if it is DV you will be fine
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NO! never edit from your Mac’s drives, always use an external (or other internal) drive such as Firewire or SATA. If you’re working in DV your 400 FWD should be more than adequate, however drives are so cheap these days you might look at a FW 800 RAID set or SATA array. LaCie and others make a bazillion good solutions. A LaCie Big Disk Extreme is a good one, as are the G-Tech boxes.
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A second internal ATA drive is faster than an external FW400 drive. Editing from an external FW is just fine for DV of course, but from a secondary internal is slighly faster. Editing from the boot drive is not recommended of course.
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First of all, what computer are you using?
That all depends on what you can use. You could add an internal SATA card and add drives to it for Internal RAID drives. I’v done it and it works on my older system. My newer systems are using a TerraBlock system and it uses SATA drives.
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